Saturday, May 30, 2015

Mapping Vancouver's Immigrant Groups

Canadian real-estate website EstateBlock allows house hunters to search for properties in the Vancouver area. The EstateBlock map view not only allows users to search for homes by location but also provides a number of data layers which provide data on
Demographics, Crime, Schools, Daycare, Transit and Climate at the neighbourhood level.

Select a neighbourhood on the the map and you can view the the number of immigrants from the major immigrant group as a percentage of the larger population living in the area,

The Vancouver Land Prices Heat Map
visualizes the price for Vancouver parcels of land based on the 2014 BC
assessment data from tax reports. Land parcels on the map are colored
to reflect the price per square foot of the property.

The map shows that many of Vancouver's most expensive properties are
concentrated in the Downtown, West End and Fairview neighborhoods. The
map also shows that land prices tend to get cheaper the further you move
east in the city. If you select a building lot on the map you can view
the exact price per square foot for the property.